Winter Handicap - October - Wednesday 28th

The start of this year's winter handicap will be on Wednesday 28th October.
Details will follow next week but in the meantime you might like to check out
the course on the club map. The start and finish is at Heston Venue.

Men's Cross Country Roundshaw Downs/Common Match 1 of the Surrey League
2015-16

Having discovered that team captain Gary Rushmer was unavailable, I stepped
in at short notice to organise the team for the first Surrey League fixture of
the season to be followed a week later by the Milocarian match for which team
details had to be submitted a week early. The Surrey league also required that
runners be registered on the team page of the new website with dates of birth or
England Athletics registration numbers to enable correct age categories to be
assigned to runners and for speedier declaration of teams and results. I soon
discovered lots of good runners were unavailable and nearly persuaded Rod "I
never do cross country" Hoffman to run but he must have got wind of the fact
that it was 5miles instead of 5k.

Anyway it was a relief when race day arrived and I could stop hassling people
by email. We had a team of 7 (10 could score), 3 of whom were not back to full
fitness. I thought that our team were unusual being based in Middlesex and
running in the Surrey League but I noticed among the 10 teams (up from 6 or 7
teams last year) were Fulham and Fleet Street Runners (or are they street
runners from Fleet?)! The race took place on a lovely afternoon twice round the
flattish Roundshaw Downs. Four other teams only had 7 runners like us but Fleet
Street could only manage 4 including the division 4 race winner! Paul Knechtl
as nearly always was our lead runner home in 6th place and our team ended up in
a creditable 6th place.

Four of us (myself, Paul, Mark and John) ran 2 years ago at Roundshaw, we
were all slower this time, the other 3 were recovering from injury, I thought I
was in good form but set off too quickly and was 2:30 slower than last time and
came an ignominious last of all the race scorers but that was 8 points better
than all the non-scorers and I did beat a few people who were beyond their
team's 10 scorers.

Thank you to all who turned up (especially Richard who made a round trip of
130miles and Matthew for getting there by public transport) and I hope to see a
few more of you (it really is the best thing you can do on a wintry Saturday
afternoon!) at Epsom on November 7th and thank you again to Paul Knechtl for
providing coffee and cakes.

Individual Results

Pos

Points

Num

Name

Age Group

Club

Time

6

6

552

Paul Knechtl

V40

BAW

29:24

32

32

554

Bernard Sexton

SEN

BAW

32:42

35

35

555

John Taylor

V50

BAW

33:10

37

37

553

Richard Ruffell

V50

BAW

33:13

41

41

550

Matthew Stratful

V40

BAW

33:42

49

49

556

Mark Taylor

V55

BAW

34:34

88

82

551

Neil Frediani

V55

BAW

42:02

Division 4 Match Results

Pos#

Club

Points

Scores

1

RMD

311

11 13 18 20 23 31 40 48 53 54

2

WOK

414

2 15 22 27 50 55 57 59 61 66

3

FUL

420.5

8 9 12 19 28 30 43 * * *

4

VAC

445

4 24 25 26 44 46 58 60 77 81

5

WIN

507.5

3 5 14 21 52 69 72 * * *

6

BAW

553.5

6 32 35 37 41 49 82 * * *

7

BAR

575

17 33 36 47 51 56 75 79 * *

8

LIN

599

10 29 63 64 65 67 73 74 76 78

9

EPO

638.5

38 39 42 45 62 70 71 * * *

10

FSR

665

1 7 34 80 * * * * * *

Neil Frediani

Club parkrun results for Saturday 10th October 2015

10th Oct 2015

Family, Friends,+

Time

parkrun

Comment

Grade

Alan

Anderson

30:04

Gunnersbury

159th run at Gunnersbury

70%

Julie

Barclay

23:03

Frimley Lodge

75%

Bill

Byrne

20:10

Old Deer Park

1st place

76%

Claire

Byrne

25:34

Old Deer Park

course pb

67%

Caroline

Cockram

29:21

Bedfont Lakes

run #199

55%

John

Coffey

25:05

Woking

73%

Jonathan

Cox

21:20

Bushy Park

run #252

71%

Ian

Cunningham

23:23

Nonsuch

9th run at Nonsuch

65%

Scott

Davison

22:27

Bedfont Lakes

run #132

63%

Alan

Friar

25:46

Reading

run #175

69%

James

Glover

23:49

Guildford

12th run at Guildford

62%

Roderick

Hoffman

28:44

Gadebridge

park #126

53%

Kevin

Holland

29:24

Poole

10th run at Poole

58%

Chris

Kelly

20:51

Harcourt Hill

park #25, club pb

71%

Kerstin

Luksch

21:17

Gunnersbury

70%

Geoff

Miles

29:28

Osterley

run #250

56%

Steve

Newell

30:04

Harrow

course pb

59%

John

Scaife

24:57

Brundall

BA park #199

65%

Sreeram

Sethuraman

25:32

Upton Court

run #61

52%

Jeremy

Short

24:05

Osterley

run #72

63%

Fiona

Smith

32:04

Harrow

run #17

48%

Steve

Taylor

23:57

Gunnersbury

15th run at Gunnersbury

63%

Barry

Walters

21:41

Bracknell

run #37

74%

Caroline

Yarnell

22:32

Curl Curl

run #8 (last week)

79%

Monica

Alonso

volunteer

Guildford

finish token support

David

Duggan

vovolunteer

Bedfont Lakes

first time run director

Denis

Foxley

volunteer

Harrow

timekeeper

Joan

Foxley

volunteer

Harrow

finish token support

Alastair

Heslop

volunteer

Guildford

Funnel Manager

Sharon

Kassemzadeh

volunteer

Cassiobury

timekeeper

The start of the cross country league season saw some of the regular
parkrunners keeping their powder dry for later in the day. Between them our
volunteers managed an entire set of finish area duties.

Former member Bill Byrne (20:10) has been running at Old Deer Park recently
and this week achieved a rare first place.

Barry Walters (21:41) made his first appearance at Bracknell since his 60th
birthday and jumped into his new age category listing there in second place.
Something to work on.

John Scaife (24:57) extended the club's list of parkruns to 199 with a run at
Brundall Country Park (near Norwich). That time puts him 2nd in the
V60 list there.

Roderick Hoffman (28:44) tried a new course for him at Gadebridge (Hemel
Hempstead) and found it hard work. For the fourth time in the last couple
of months Steve Newell made a return visit to a course tried earlier in the year
and came away with a much improved time - this week 30:04 at Harrow where the
Foxleys were on duty at the finish.

Geoff Miles (29:28), event director at Osterley, duly completed his 250th
parkrun in what appears to have been a very leisurely pace.

One result missed last week was Caroline Yarnell enjoying some early spring
sunshine at Curl Curl in Sydney where her 22:32 was worth 79% on the WMA scale.

Race to Two Hundred?

I expect to run at a new parkrun for the club next week so that will
guarantee that the club reaches 200 parkruns.

Why don't you join me by being somewhere
else too? The club map shows as green trees all of the parkruns we haven't
yet attended and you can use Google to get travel times and directions.
The map also has links to each parkrun page. Some parkrun tourists learn
from bad experience that they need to check that a distant parkrun is not cancelled before
they turn up at it. Last Saturday one tourist learnt by turning up at Clermont
Waterfront in Orlando to discover that the event was off! My
recommendation is to
check the parkrun Volunteer/Future Roster page - no one rostered may mean no
event. If this page isn't populated at all then check the news page or search for the parkrun's facebook page. I can't remember the last time I
found a parkrun without an active facebook page.

Which new parkrun will I be at?
I don't know, I'll consider my options on Friday evening and decide then - but
my target is a flat tarmac course.

"My marathon today was today not good. My drink problem was to blame! I've
always like a drink in moderation (but admit to a bit more than moderation when
a student!) but for the last 20 or so years I can't drink more than a pint or
glass of wine without getting ill and sometimes get ill even with less drink.
Saturday was one of those days! I stupidly had a 330ml bottle of Italian lager
beer with my American Hot pizza at the York Pizza Express overlooking the river
on Saturday lunchtime! I was then ill in the early hours of Sunday - sweating in
bed, terrible headache and then throwing up! Unable to eat any breakfast and
then threw up again when my brother, Miles, dropped me near the start at about
7:45! Felt bad all way round and my right knee was quite painful for the last 10
miles. Perfect running conditions, dray, cool and quite sunny but with lots of
shade - shame I could not make use of them! I finished in 3:53:32."
Piers Keenleyside

Meet the Committee - Neil Frediani - Events Secretary

I first joined the BAAC in 1984/5 and ran for 2 or 3 years (my best
performance was a 1:29 half marathon in Leighton Buzzard in 1985), I
also attended 3 WARRs London, Atlanta and Washington before retiring
hurt after too many niggles which were probably brought about by playing
squash, badminton, hockey, cricket etc. During the next fifteen years I
cycled and swam and was active in the raising of 2 children and had 4
back seizures so started to do yoga to try and improve things. A job
move to Waterside in 2002/3 gave me easy access to a gym which enabled
me to build some core strength and start running again indoors and then
the BA Fun Run. A few years later I rejoined the club and eventually ran
a couple of half marathons in well over 2 hours, discovered parkrun in
2008 and cross country in 2009. I am still no good at cross country but
love it. Last year I knocked 40mins off my previous half marathon time
running 1:51 and this year ran my first Marathon.

My role on the committee is to compile the new diary of events.
Sometimes this is just by adjusting dates from previous years, sometimes
researching new events to add, liaising with others re dates of league
events, committee mtgs. AGMs etc., finding links to websites for events.
Sometimes organisers keep you guessing until very late regarding the
dates of their events especially where they are club team events rather
than public races. I also attend committee meetings and marshal at club
events and marshal for the club at London Marathon related events.

Neil Frediani

Retired Runners Lunch

ThThis year's Retired Runners Lunch will be at the Black Lion, 2 Black Lion
Lane, Hammersmith on Tuesday 8th December at 12.30 p.m. Numerous travel options for bus pass holders and car parking
is not impossible.

If you haven't done so already please contact Steve Newell to register
interest.

Only a week to go before the glorious Frieth Hilly kicks off and
you kick back and get into your stride. The pre-race maelstrom of nerves and
excitement settles down and before you know it, you're flying down the hill to
Fingest with the sun on your back and valley laid out before you.